Follow on Twitter please: @rgroveslaw. I am the Director of the Business Law Program at Florida Coastal School of Law, which includes sports law issues. But before becoming an attorney I had a mother and father too. I was fortunate because if they gave me a penny I would owe them change. I became a tax judge and split the baby on occasion but tried most to be fair. After deciding I would rather be inspired to work harder and trust the journey than be uninspired and not work as hard, I went into private practice and became an equity partner of Howard & Howard Attorneys P.C., and counsel to Lewis & Munday, PC. I've represented multi-national corporations in multi-million dollar transactions and high profile entertainers in business and tax matters. Passion continues to be the plasma of progression as now I hope to share how good the profession can be to the new generation of counsel. So now I am a law professor, teaching business entities, securities, international business transactions, and the business side of sports. The passion includes writing. I authored a book, "Innocence in the Red Zone" regarding a client and former Michigan State head football coach Bobby Williams and several other articles regarding business, tax, and entrepreneurship. But my deepest passion - beyond family, is musical. I played piano for Magic Johnson's wedding, opened for Stevie Wonder, had a song recorded by Jerry Butler, and wrote a book about playing piano by ear with a soulful style - all eclipsed by writing songs for one's own wedding.

LeBron James Back To Cleveland Cavaliers With A Renewed Mission

Humility and forgiveness reaches people in ways Trump-ness cannot touch. That was my first reaction to the LeBron James announcement to go back to Cleveland to play basketball. He said: “Who am I to hold a grudge.”He said he sat down man-to-man with owner Dan Gilbert, a man that vilified James for leaving the first time, and “talked it out.”How many of us would have subrogated our pride or other more attractive opportunities to return to employee status, albeit a highly paid one, to help a city win a championship?

Many of them hate his brashness. Now they too have a chance to forgive. They must have rooted incessantly for any team that played Miami because they were the underdog. How do they reconcile the hate now when his Cavaliers are not favored to win a championship?How do they reconcile what objectively would seem to be a good character trait to help a city win its first major championship since 1964?

James has been a highlight reel of the New Age Athlete with business savvy and judgment on and off the court. Someone should ask Dan Gilbert,

“Did you offer a future ownership interest in the team to sweeten the deal?”

If the answer is “No”, I would still be reluctant to believe it. And if not now, wait until LBJ attracts the few remaining gaps in talent. Wait until he mentally captains the Cleveland Cavaliers from mediocre to championship caliber. He will be more known for that skill than his own statistics. That ability to generate the winning synergy is the resume builder for a future owner. That is the opportunity I suspect he envisions from a business perspective.

It will be interested to see how creative and irresponsible some will be in espousing sinister motives to LeBron James this time. This decision included his admission that he has made mistakes. That was an obvious reference to the media-infused Monster Ball he had announcing his Cleveland departure. Those who profit from talking about James will not capitalize as much at his expense this time. He learned a lesson, an attribute I would not assign to the media that would do it all over again as long as it was profitable.

So it is a good day in sports when someone who personally has everything still has the heart to do something for others. If we were talking about Bill Gates or other social entrepreneurs we appropriately would sing his and their praises, as he and others are saving lives. On a much smaller scale, we can still say it is a good thing to bring goods to a rust-belt city. It is not just merchandizing money that will flow to Cleveland. There is a reason why cash-squeezed city taxpayers subsidize billionaire owners just so they can say we have a professional team. There are nonmonetary treasures sought by millions. LBJ is seeking them now. Now we’ll see whether our collective character treasures the ideals of humility and forgiveness while still showing business acumen. If we do, LBJ is more our hero than our villain.

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